Will this be our country's future under Obama Care?


Excerpted from Health Care Chorus: Back in the USSR by Jonathon Imbody:

"The government dictated what physicians must believe, and how they should practice."

Katrina Alexis Belova, a young American medical student from Ukraine, was lamenting the ironic parallels between old Soviet medicine and President Obama’s health care policies (read here).

Katrina recalled how her mother, a physician, was forced to practice medicine without allowance for conscience, under communist rule in Ukraine.

Katrina explained. "Abortion was never an issue in the Soviet Union, simply because the communist government dictated that it was not an ethical dilemma, and all physicians were required to perform the procedure. Those who disobeyed could not obtain their medical license or continue their practice."

If Congress passes the House version of Obama Care (the 158,000-word HR 3200, called “America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009”), American doctors will soon face a similar dilemma: obey new government mandates compelling participation in abortion or leave medicine.

HR 3200 provides that “Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary [of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius] shall, through the rulemaking process consistent with subsection (a), adopt an initial set of benefit standards.”

Court and agency decisions in the past demonstrate that without specific restrictions on abortion coverage, it will be mandated. Beginning in 1973, federal taxpayers were being forced to fund 300,000 Medicaid-paid abortions per year, prompting Congress to ban such publicly funded abortions. Read the rest here.

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